WW2 unit 5 test (shlinder)

In what years did ww2 take place?

1939-1945

Who was forced to go in Bataan death march and why?

70,000 Chinese prisoners for cruel punishment

Who won the war?

Allied Powers

What happened on d-day?

Allies set up a dummy army to keep Hitler guessing

What catastrophic event led the surrender of japan and the end of world war 2?

Atomic Bombing

In 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany as a direct result of what?

Battle of Britain

Name the chronological order

D-day, surrender of Germany, atomic bomb, surrender of japan

Name list turning points in world war 2 in Europe and the pacific

El Alamein, Stalingrad, midway, Normandy

Under the postwar constitution in japan, who was head of the government

Emperor

Who was the leader of the new rank corps Hitler sent to North Africa?

Erwin Rommel

The significance of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb is that

First atomic bombing

Who was Charles de Gualle?

French general led french in Germans resistance

Who was the British second army commander

General Dempsey

The battle of the bulge, the battle resulting in the most US deaths in world war 2 got its name

Germans created bulge, pushing through American defense line

What happened at Dunkirk?

Germans had forced the British and French to retreat to dunkirk

The allies power included

Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and dozens of other allies

After world war 1, the United States decided to stay out of the foreign affairs. This is known as what?

Isolationism

Which nations were members of the axis powers?

Italy, Germany, and japan

Which nation sought to establish the greater east Asia co prosperity sphere and a "pacific empire", between 1931 and 1945?

Japan

When day was D-Day?

June 6, 1944

Which beach was led by the Canadian division

Juno

During the Battle of Britain, Hitler tried to defeat Britain using what strategy?

Luftwaffe

Why did president Truman decide to sue the atomic bomb on Japan

Make Japan surrender

What was the turning point of the pacific theater?

Midway

Why did the United States and it's allies used the strategy of "island hopping" in the pacific theater?

Military strategy to hop island to defeat japan

Hitler moved German troops into three countries, which were they?

Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

Who was the prime minister of Great Britain during ww2?

Neville chamberline

The decisions and results of the Munich conference of 1938 have become symbolic of

Peace

During world war 2, the allies invasion of France in d-day was significant because it caused Germany to do what?

Retreat

What was the name of buffer zone along a river where Hitler moved troops and violated treaty of Versailles?

Rhineland

The German blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what advantage?

Rushing to defeat the enemy

Operation Barbarossa, headed by Hitler in June of 1941, was the name given to the invasion of

Soviet Union

Which country lost the most lives in ww2?

Soviet Union

Why did hitler sign a non-aggression treaty with Stalin on the eve of World War II?

Stalin was promised land from Hitler

Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

US stop oil shipment, wanted to move into Dutch East Indies and Malaya to conquer

The US 1st army let by general bradley, landed on which two beaches?

Utah and Omaha

The battle of El Alamein was a turning point in the war because it

Was Britain making massive frontal attacks with Germany

"Never was so munched owed by so many to so few?"

Winston church hill